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<rant>The term is "File and Registry virtualization" (go look them up on the Microsoft site). The connection with UAC that they get activated the same time, but then again, by the same logic, why not call it Vista virtualization and create even more confusion? You are doing all a disservice by using non-standard lingo which is not easy to look up! There are only two possible reasons to do this: ignorance, in which case you should be stripped of titles like "MVP" or malicious intent (ie. bringing more traffic to your site by ensuring that only you use these names), where a small thing called "ethics" comes in.</rant>

Then again, maybe I should be glad that the level of knowledge about MS is evaporating, because maybe more people will move to Linux :-).

3 comments:

I would like to mention a couple things in response to your blog rant.

1) In the first paragraph of Mr. Delber's article, he uses the phrase "User Account Control and Virtualization" which is accurate. A little further in he writes "UAC lends a helping hand by virtualizing the file system and Registry namespace." Again, accurate. From that point on he does refer to the process as UAC virtualization which I propagated in my comments on my blog post.

2) However, Microsoft does the same thing. Particularly in their FAQ on User Access Control here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772207.aspx.

Considering the two statements above, I view your rant as out of line and itself lending to the problem you are ranting about.